Vanitas

Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI. Image processing: J. DePasquale, A. Pagan, and A. Koekemoer (STScI)

Everything is important. Nothing is forever.

The more these facts collide within my psyche, the more intensely earnest I become.

And I think increasingly about death. What a slippery slope! It could get to be "too much". Some would propose that the amount and ways I think about death is "disordered", maybe even "pathological". It's true that several nights a year I end up in a panic and need some LOVEing support before I can rest.

Yet I feel increasingly sane. Facing fear of things that are real helps. (We all know the quotes and platitudes and jokes which remind us— oh so abstractly— that few things are more real than death.)

The trick is not to face this fear alone. So thank you, another human with the dubious gift of recognizing impermanence, for all the ways you do this with me. And I'm here to do this with you. DM if you wanna talk about death together.